please feel at ease.I'm not a fanatic fan of shuurei. i'm more of seiran, ryuuki & eigetsu fans!! ^o^.. if you told me to choose bertween shuurei & jyuusan hime, i choose jyuusan hime... lately her naivety is a bit annoying with the counterfeit incident. also about how she go to save ryuuki in ryuusaiku mountain or whatever its name in ran province, but she's the one in danger instead. even the head of gyoshidai already remind her not to go there... she could just told shuuei to go..

I love Shuurei; I love her strength as a character, the fact that she's a woman and strong AS a woman, intelligent, and yet still a little naive. I also desperatly want her to fall in love with Ryuuki. But, honestly, one can't MAKE themselves love someone else. Yes, Ryuuki does deserve someone who can love him but in Shuurei's defense, it's not her fault if she can't. I hope she does, but she has at least been honest to him. She's naive and a bit clueless, but she's so focused on her goals in life that it makes sense in a way. Her character will grow. I admire her for her determination/stubborness to work toward something that benefits the people around her.

Kou Shuurei--- how can you not love her she has everything that a man loves: she got the brains, beauty, courage, humor and most of all the peaceful love that she likes to express to everyone surrounding her

Both of the girls would be fine with Ryuuki, but the question is who is better suited for him. I would say Shuurei.

Both girls have their strengths and weaknesses.
Jyusaan is nice and strong. She loved Jin and does not love Ryuuki but give her some time and she would definitely fall in love with him. She seems like a good companion so far and politic wise, this would improve relationship with Ran Clan. It would help Ryuuki's reign as emperor.

Ryuuki clearly loves Shuurei and its clear that Shuurei loves him too. I think her a weak point of being so strong is that she cannot admit her feelings. Shes became an official to help the people because she wants to help but if you noticed, she also wants to help Ryuuki too. She loves giving and helping people but I think she needs to feel that the people around her want her to be happy. She needs to decide what she wants before its too late and she'll just end up getting hurt and hurting everyone around her too.
<3 My Naive shuurei.

Shouka-sama has the final say in her marriage, I guess, but I'm sure he wants Shuurei to be happy. I doubt Reishin can stop that. =Hides=